It's been so busy since Logan came home that I didn't have the time to blog about his homecoming. The whole experience went smoothly. We got to the hospital by 9 a.m., beating rush hour traffic, to get Logan discharged. Got all the forms filled out, instructions and appointments ready. He looked so cute out of his hospital onesie when he was sitting patiently waiting to go home in the car seat. The minor annoyance was to carry the forever-alarming apnea monitor and the portable oxygen with us.
Our main concern when he came home was Aidan because we didn't know how he would react. The night before, I wrapped his big brother present ( a roaring and walking dinosaur) from Logan, hoping he would get a good first impression of his little brother. When Aidan came home from daycare, he came into Logan's room (formerly his) and gently pat him on the legs. That was so cute. We didn't even asked him to do that. He reacted very positively to Logan, probably thinking he's rather cute, for now. We told him to kiss Logan, which he did, sort of. He enjoyed hanging out in the room being in Logan's presence, while us adults trying to avoid him from touching this button and that button from the equipment and the space heater. He didn't feel possessive of his rocker chair as Logan is the primary user of it now. I constantly praise him for being gentle to Logan, for sharing and being such a good big brother and mommy's good helper. Let's hope this relationship will continue after this great start.
As mentioned earlier about the annoying, forever-alarming apnea monitor during the trial night at the hospital, things haven't gone better. It still kept on beeping and we just turned it off. We had the respiratory therapist from Apria to come take a look at it and change the settings, but of course right after she left, the alarm continued. We just turned that darn machine off and watch Logan around-the-look with one adult each time taking turns. The machine was changed to another one as I called Apria again to complain. The same therapist came out, but it didn't really change much. There are still many false alarms, just a little less than the previous one. I am hoping we don't need this machine soon.
The other issue with Logan is his nipple confusion (I guess). He's been using the hospital disposable nipple for a whole month and I really need to get him used to another brand. As much as I wanted to continue using the ones we have gotten from the hospital, this is not a long-term solution as they are supposed to be disposable ones. He took these latex ones very well but was not as successful with the silicone Avent ones. I went to Target to see if they have other brands with the latex nipples and only the Playtex drop-in bottles use them. Darn! Drop-ins are hard to wash and I really didn't want to use them. I bought a pack of cheap Gerber ones and hope he might like them. So far, no luck with Avent and we had to tube feed him half of the milk.
* You can click on the pictures to view a larger version.
* Picture 1 = Logan in his carseat at the hospital, all ready to get out of there.
2 = Aidan, Logan and Daddy
3 = Aidan saying Hello to Logan
4 = Aidan opening up the present that Logan got for his big brother
5 = Aidan thanking Logan for the present
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